It used to be supposed that a perfect sapphire must, be of a dark, rich blue tint. Now the discovery of a new sapphire mine in the Rocky Mountains, where stones were found varying in their shades of colour from a light steel blue to the deep blue tint, and again from a lovely amethyst to a ruby red, has changed all that, and these gems are highly prized in America.
A camel, with an ordinary load of 400 pounds, can travel twelve to fourteen days without water, going fourteen miles a day. Camels are tit to work at five years old, but their strength begins to decline at twenty-five, although tney live usually until forty. They are oftened fattened at thirty for food, the flesh tasting like beef.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1507, 17 January 1901, Page 61
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